The writing was painfully sub-par, but because the acting was so phenomenal I didn't really notice how bad it was until about the midway mark, and then I couldn't NOT notice it, so I spent the last hour rolling my eyes. (Spock screaming "KHAN"? Really? That's how we're going to play that? Really?). The number one issue, story-wise, was that there wasn't any serious conflict. In the last film it was the End of Days kind of thing, which ratcheted up the tension until the last fifteen minutes of the film BLEW YOUR MIND. In this film, Kirk loses his command and gets it back in fifteen minutes.
The movie was great, just as you said, but it wasn't epic. I was waiting for epic.
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Date: 2013-05-23 11:07 am (UTC)The writing was painfully sub-par, but because the acting was so phenomenal I didn't really notice how bad it was until about the midway mark, and then I couldn't NOT notice it, so I spent the last hour rolling my eyes. (Spock screaming "KHAN"? Really? That's how we're going to play that? Really?). The number one issue, story-wise, was that there wasn't any serious conflict. In the last film it was the End of Days kind of thing, which ratcheted up the tension until the last fifteen minutes of the film BLEW YOUR MIND. In this film, Kirk loses his command and gets it back in fifteen minutes.
The movie was great, just as you said, but it wasn't epic. I was waiting for epic.